Business Administration Lower-Level Certificate

The Business Administration Lower-Level Certificate is designed for students who have completed a bachelor’s degree in a field other than business administration. This certificate is intended to provide a foundation in business administration that will prepare students for many federal government management and administrative positions.

Although some of the courses in this certificate may transfer into the A.S. Business Administration and A.A.S. Business Management degrees, the purpose of this certificate is to provide the necessary additional business administration courses which will enable students to meet federal government management and administrative related position requirements.

Employment/Career Potential

APG Maryland at the Ready has estimated a net gain of 8,200 positions at Aberdeen Proving Ground and 7,500 to 10,000 new contractor positions off-post as a result of the BRAC project. A majority of these positions will be administrative and management related. Team C4ISR, which is one of the commands relocating to APG, projects extensive hiring through 2014. Many of these positions will be in logistics, administrative/business, contracting, administrative assistants and information technology. Employment information from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management suggests that many of these positions will require a bachelor’s degree, including 24 credit hours in business administration.